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might be somewhat over-described, but it seems to be a positive step towards delivering the much talked about .

No, not all councils have warmed to the scheme. Somewhat inconveniently for the government at least, and , where British swimming's best current role models happen to have taken their first plunges, are not taking part, but 80% of the rest of the local council pools in England will be giving something for nothing.

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Over the next couple of days, will be picking through the detail of the report president believes gives new hope to his crusade to limit the number of foreign players in club sides.

Fifa's congress voted in favour of an exploration of the last year, but Blatter wanted a full examination, not just a discussion, and he's undeterred by the seemingly implacable opposition of the to any such idea. "If there's a law, a law can be amended," he asserts.

To that end, a Fifa-commissioned study by the Institute For European Affairs will be across the desks of the executive committee members in , asserting that six plus five is in fact compatible with European law. Handy that.

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Dwain Chambers' .

Just as Christopher Marlowe's magician sought knowledge and power, so Chambers is using Conte to educate him in the dark ways of the hypoxicator.

Well, perhaps that's an analogy too far, but are at the contentious end of the scale of legal aids to performance.

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